Committees

The Air Quality Forum is a policy committee comprised of local elected officials, air quality and transportation agency personnel, and business and community group representatives.

The MARC Board of Directors consists of 33 locally elected leaders from the nine member counties and the six largest cities in the region. The member counties are Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte in Kansas.

The Partners in Quality for Early Childhood Education (PIQ ) is the key community collaboration body for early learning in the Greater Kansas City region.

The Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Committee operates as a policy committee of the MARC Board of Directors and oversees regional emergency preparedness and homeland security grant funds.

The Total Transportation Policy Committee (TTPC) serves as the local decision-making and policy development body related to multimodal transportation in the region.

The 911 Peer Support Advisory Committee is a sub-committee of the Public Safety Communications Board and is primarily composed of individuals representing various public safety answering points and mental health professionals with a first responder background.

MARC serves as the coordinating body for the 988 Mobile Crisis Steering Committee on the Missouri side of the state line in the Kansas City region, with the goal of creating a better, more efficient and standard mobile crisis response service across the region.

The Active Transportation Programming committee oversees federal programs that provide funds for projects that benefit pedestrians, bicyclists and other nonmotorized transportation users.

The Air Quality Public Education Committee oversees the public education efforts of the Air Quality Program.

The Aviation Committee assists in the development of airport system plans and addresses other aviation issues as need arises.

The Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) is a regional forum that is briefed on bicycle and pedestrian matters in the Kansas City area.

The Climate and Environment Council (CEC) is a collaborative, action-oriented committee that guides the implementation of the Kansas City Regional Climate Action Plan. This committee is jointly supported by MARC and Climate Action KC.

The Community Disaster Resiliency Network was created to connect community service providers and allow members to discuss best practices, common goals, emergency planning and training, sharing resources, etc., in order to increase agency and client resiliency before, during and after di

The Mid-America Regional Council has supported a KC Regional Community Health Worker Collaborative since 2016. The Collaborative has focused on capacity building, advocacy and sustainability of the profession.

Destination Safe is a coalition governed by a committee with a membership that includes local, regional, state and federal representatives from transportation, emergency response, law enforcement, public health and nonprofit groups dedicated to transportation safety.

This task team provides a forum to coordinate and support education and outreach efforts of the Destination Safe partners.

The Safety Data Task Team provides a forum to improve the collection, management and analysis of transportation safety data, enhance the timeliness, accuracy and reliability of transportation safety data, and help regional partners make data-driven transportation safety decisions.

E-RAPIO, a subcommittee of the Regional Association of Public Information Officers (RAPIO), has the authority and autonomy to represent RAPIO in all Regional Homeland Security Coordinating Committee responsibili